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Foster Business Library
Databases:
See this database's extensive country information for the
United Arab Emirates, including the monthly Country
Reports and the annual Country Profiles; for this country, there is no Country Commerce report. See also the country's ratings under Sovereign Ratings and Risk. In the April 2008 Country Report, see the section on Labor Unrest in the Emirates.
See Outsourcing in the Business Environment, in the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance.
See the company overview for DP World for limited information about Dubai World. According to Hoovers, "DP World is owned by Port & Free Zone World, a company that is part of Dubai World, a holding company that has investments in several industry sectors, mainly related to international trade. Dubai World, in turn, is owned by the government of Dubai, one of seven city states that make up the United Arab Emirates."
See Outsourcing, including costs and benefits, in volume four, on pages 1555 to 1559.
To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library.
Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.
If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end) to Z (at the far west end).
A search for the keyword Outsourcing produced a list of over 190 records in the UW Libraries, including over fifty records
in the Foster Business Library. A subject search for Offshore Outsourcing produced over twenty records.
The relevant subject term is Contracting Out, which covers a broader area than outsourcing outside the U.S. A subject search for Contracting Out produced a list of more than 780 records in the UW Libraries, including over fifty records in the Foster Business Library.
A keyword search for Dubai World produced over a dozen records in the UW Libraries, most of them not relevant.
Examples of titles in Foster (or in online form) from these searches include:
Foster Business Library Articles:
Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of
spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations
and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street
Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New
Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO
Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest
NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.
This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full
text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals,
magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a
very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by
word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search
for your topic in the Topic Guide.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.
A search for Dubai and "Palm Islands" produced over three hundred articles; for Dubai and "Palm Islands" and Outsourcing, no articles; for Dubai and "Palm Islands" and Contracts, twenty articles.
A search for SUB(Islands) and GEO(Dubai United Arab Emirates) produced fourteen articles. A basic search for "Dubai World" and Outsourcing produced a grand total of just two articles in this database of over a hundred million articles, both about the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Examples of articles from these searches include:
See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, with answers to over nine hundred frequently-asked questions.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the
List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases
from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources
may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more
information on Foster business databases, click Databases,
A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index.
For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access.
For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.
Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever
you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
Foster Business Library Reference Collection:
The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
Foster Business Library
Books:
This five-volume reference work includes 900 essays by scholars, arranged alphabetically by topic, on
all aspects of business ethics.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .E53 2008.
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.
Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and
newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the
Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection,
comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online,
24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO
Business Source Premier, Factiva,
LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest
Databases. These article databases are available in the library or
from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and
millions of articles.
The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed many of the hours that the library is open. The
staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies.
For e-mail questions, direct your query to buslib@u.washington.edu. For
assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.